Google's John Mueller said in a video hangout at the 3:16 mark that the URLs Google finds in your XML sitemap files are often used to define your canonical URLs. John said "we recommend doing that is ...
Canonical URLs help prevent duplicate content in search. Learn what they are, why they matter, and how to set them up correctly to protect rankings. Canonical URLs are HTML elements that tell search ...
Google's John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread that you should avoid using special characters in your URLs. Specifically avoid using "commas, semicolons, colons, spaces, quotes, etc." in ...